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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 20, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

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  2. BSD Leftovers
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  3. today's leftovers
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  4. Windows TCO: Microsoft Causes Chaos, Even Kills People (Again)
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  5. Our Gemini Capsule is Turning Two [original]
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  6. KaOS Linux 2024.07 Released with KDE Plasma 6.1 and Linux Kernel 6.9
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  7. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  8. Programming/Development Leftovers
    KDE, Mozilla, and more
  9. Android Leftovers
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  10. Mini review – Maintain focused productivity with Blanket for Linux
    Many applications available for Linux only focus on just one or at most a limited number of related simple tasks
  11. Apache Software Foundation Becomes Politics
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  12. Android Leftovers
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  13. Nvidia News
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  14. Immich Introduces Licensing in the Latest Update
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  15. today's howtos
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  16. Pulsar 1.119 Code Editor Brings Refined Tools and Fixes
    Pulsar 1.119, a free & open-source cross-platform code editor
  17. GNOME’s New Video Player is Now Available on Flathub
    Were you excited by news GNOME plans to replace the Totem media player in its core software set with a new, modern, and actively maintained app called Showtime
  18. Best Free and Open Source Software
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  19. Collections of Different Linux Distributions
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  20. Top 7 Open Source CAD Software & AutoCAD Alternatives
    The open source ecosystem is quite large and reaches many aspects of modern daily life
  21. OrangePi 5 Max SBC with M.2 Key Slot and 2.5GbE LAN Port
    The OrangePi 5 Max supports multiple operating systems, including OrangePi OS (Droid, Arch, OH), Ubuntu, Debian, and Android 12
  22. Stable kernels: Linux 6.9.10, Linux 6.6.41, Linux 6.1.100, Linux 5.15.163, Linux 5.10.222, Linux 5.4.280, and Linux 4.19.318
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  23. Peter de Schrijver RIP
    The sad news that Peter de Schrijver has passed away has just reached us
  24. Largely Open Source GitLab Is Evidently for Sale and Datadog Is Interested
    People close to GitLab have told Reuters that the DevOps pipeline service is looking for a buyer and that cloud monitoring company Datadog is expressing an interest
  25. Today in Techrights
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    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

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    1057 /n/2024/07/13/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    934 /n/2024/07/16/Mozilla_Selling_Out_Firefox_Users.shtml
    893 /n/2024/07/15/Ubuntu_24_04_LTS_Can_Now_Do_What_It_Should_Have_Always_Done.shtml
    848 /n/2024/07/13/TrueNAS_24_04_1_1.shtml
    804 /n/2024/07/15/today_s_howtos.shtml
    793 /n/2024/07/13/today_s_howtos.shtml
    787 /n/2024/07/13/GNOME_47_Alpha_Desktop_Environment_Released_with_Support_for_Ac.shtml
    764 /n/2024/07/12/TUXEDO_launches_InfinityBook_Pro_14_Gen9_Linux_laptop.shtml
    758 /n/2024/07/14/RISC_V_Based_Lichee_Pi_3A_with_16GB_RAM_and_PCIe_Support.shtml
    753 /n/2024/07/13/Reaching_Higher.shtml
    750 /n/2024/07/16/Audacity_3_6_Open_Source_Audio_Editor_Released_with_Master_Effe.shtml
    741 /n/2024/07/14/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    737 /n/2024/07/14/today_s_howtos.shtml
    733 /n/2024/07/12/OBS_Studio_30_2_Released_with_NVENC_AV1_Support_on_Linux_Unifie.shtml
    731 /n/2024/07/16/KDE_Plasma_6_1_3_Improves_Flatpak_Support_in_Discover_Fixes_Mor.shtml
    726 /n/2024/07/15/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    720 /n/2024/07/15/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    717 /n/2024/07/14/Android_Leftovers.shtml
    713 /n/2024/07/13/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    712 /n/2024/07/14/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    706 /n/2024/07/16/Recore_A8_An_Allwinner_A64_powered_3D_printer_control_board_wit.shtml
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